Mike Westbrook pays tribute to trumpeter Stuart Brooks: We just heard the sad news that Stuart Brooks has died after a two-year fight with cancer. Stuart was one of the finest trumpet […]
Stuart Brooks: A Tribute by Mike Westbrook
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Karen Ruimy – ‘Black Coffee’
Karen Ruimy – Black Coffee(Independent. EP review by Chris Wheatley) A change of musical direction here for Casablanca-born Karen Ruimy. Black Coffee sees the artist move away from flamenco and firmly into […]
Alex Paxton – ‘Music For Bosch People’
Alex Paxton – Music For Bosch People(Birmingham Record Company BRC011. Album review by Fiona Mactaggart) Not a lot causes this writer to laugh out loud, but this album did, repeatedly. For improvising […]
Capri-Batterie — ‘TANQ’
Capri-Batterie — TANQ (DPROMCD154. Album review by AJ Dehany) Over a century since Tristan Tzara stuck his mitt in a dictionary and pulled out the word Dada, the absurdist artistic movement originating […]
Nominees for Scottish Awards for New Music 2021 Innovation in Jazz Award announced
The fifth annual Scottish Awards for New Music are here, writes Mark Mckergow (*), with nominees announced in thirteen categories including Solo Work, Large Scale New Work, Innovation in New Traditional Music,,, The Scottish […]
52 Jazz Tracks for 2021 (26. ‘Iron Man from John Surman, ‘Morning Glory’, 1973)
Now half way through the year, this is the 26th of Jon Turney’s weekly selections. It features an early highlight from one of our most distinctive, and distinguished, UK jazz artists. This […]
Ipswich Jazz Festival 2021
John Watson writes : The fifth Ipswich Jazz Festival was able to go ahead over the weekend (June 26-27), with strict Covid-19 precautions including the audience distanced and masked. Artists who appeared […]
Nina Simone – ‘The Montreux Years’
Nina Simone – The Montreux Years (BMG 4050538631241. Album review by John Bungey) If you were whiling away the summer in Switzerland in the late 20th century, which was the year to […]
Angrusori – ‘Live at Tou’
Angrusori – Live at Tou (Hudson Records HUD017CD. Album review by Alison Bentley) Musical borders blurred: Roma songs sung and played by musicians from the Slovak Roma community and Norwegian improvisers the […]
Beverley Beirne (new album ‘Dream Dancer’)
A chance meeting online paid dividends for Beverley Beirne when top New York keyboards player/record producer Jason Miles – of Miles Davis, Aretha Franklin and Luther Vandross fame – offered to work […]
Mike Gibbs – ‘Revisiting Tanglewood 63: The Early Tapes’
Mike Gibbs – Revisiting Tanglewood 63: The Early Tapes (Jazz in Britain JIB 24-S-CD. Album review by Tony Dudley-Evans) The enterprising Jazz in Britain label specialises in releasing archive material often drawn […]
Deschanel Gordon Quartet at the 606 Club
Deschanel Gordon Quartet (606 Club. 26 June 2021. Review by Peter Jones) This eagerly-anticipated gig was massively over-subscribed, and it’s not difficult to see why. 23-year-old Londoner Deschanel Gordon has already scaled […]
Matchbox Bluesmaster Series – Set 4
Matchbox Bluesmaster Series – Set 4(MSESET4 – 6 CDs. Release Date 2 July 2021. Album Review by Chris Parker) Julius Daniels/Lil McClintock (1927–30) Texas Alexander Vol. 3 (1929–30) Peg Leg Howell (1926–27) Sanctified Jug […]
Noah Haidu ft. Buster Williams, Billy Hart – ‘Slowly: Song For Keith Jarrett’
Noah Haidu ft. Buster Williams, Billy Hart – Slowly: Song For Keith Jarrett (Sunnyside Records, SSC 1596 . Album review by Mike Collins) A piano trio album subtitled Song for Keith Jarrett […]
Roy Hargrove, Mulgrew Miller – ‘In Harmony’ (rec. 2006 / 2007)
Roy Hargrove, Mulgrew Miller – In Harmony (Resonance Records HCD-2060. Review by Leonard Weinreich) Mainly dependent on inspired improvisation, jazz music is ephemeral stuff. Unrecorded performances evaporate into the ether never to […]
